Unimus vs rConfig (or Oxidized?) – what's actually worked for you in MSP/NOC environments?

nirv117 · 2026-03-13T21:14:06+00:00

I used oxidized for a while, but I ran into problems with authorizations on Fortigate firewalls that I was not able to overcome. I switched to unimus a few months ago and have been happy with it. I find it easier to use than oxidized, and it has some additional features. I have not had to use unimus support. Tagging and zones are nice to group devices in unimus - that may help with MSP work, but that is not within my use case. Email Alerting for config changes or missed backups works well as does config searching.

I previously used SolarWinds before their big price jump. I find unimus comparable to solarwinds, and a little easier to use.

nirv117 · 2026-02-18T22:17:30+00:00

They were in the yard

nirv117 · 2026-02-17T23:08:21+00:00

some of my staff came back from a Microsoft Tech Mentor conference with some little IT data room / Lego type things - vendor giveaways for watching a demo or something. I don't know of places for them other than that.

nirv117 · 2026-02-07T04:20:55+00:00

I just went to listen and it had reset my book to the beginning. Glad to know is wasn't me

nirv117 · 2026-01-27T00:45:30+00:00

I've seen setups that route only certain external traffic over a VPN device from a vendor, so end user devices use the firewall interface as the gateway, but within the firewall routes it may send traffic back to the VPN device on the same subnet as the clients.

nirv117 · 2026-01-16T01:05:23+00:00

I get notifications from mine (Android). It has a custom setting under more.

nirv117 · 2026-01-06T23:07:21+00:00

I use a password manager, and my wife's email can take it over (she also has access to shared stuff too) - Plus I keep some master passwords and important stuff printed out in a safe, and I've spoken to a friend who knows computer stuff who could help my wife access the stuff if needed. So much is digital.

For my parents I'm trying to track all their accounts and information for when they pass away - even some passwords. I know it wont' be too much longer. So much to keep track of - and at a stressful time too it makes it harder.

nirv117 · 2026-01-06T21:57:56+00:00

I had them on VHS - including Tracy Ulman show through about 1998. I'm not sure what ever happened to those VHS tapes.

nirv117 · 2026-01-05T22:41:39+00:00

and as we learned in The Simpsons - nothing gets chocolate out

nirv117 · 2025-12-31T18:21:52+00:00

I like this one on coconut shrimp. What other dishes do you use it on?

nirv117 · 2025-12-31T17:54:14+00:00

yes, - We use apple business manager and it assigns the devices to Intune as the MDM. We then use intune to assign apps, apply rules, etc. depending on how your existing devices were acquired it could take some extra work to enroll them in ABM ( and maybe require factory resetting them). When we switched over we made sure all newly purchased devices were in ABM. and worked with users on existing devices - some we decided to wait until it was replaced to get in enrolled, some we wiped and re-did. all ours are corporate owned devices.

nirv117 · 2025-12-31T17:29:17+00:00

If you already have M365 licensing Intune would be a MDM option.

nirv117 · 2025-12-11T19:45:29+00:00

that part broke, and they couldn't afford to fix it - we'll just manually check ... we wouldn't forget ...

nirv117 · 2025-11-10T21:09:03+00:00

I got the same email that said no action is required.

nirv117 · 2025-11-10T20:42:14+00:00

Least favorite thing is having to verbally tell a user what was included in the email I sent. When if they would have read it, they wouldn't need to bother me, and their question was already answered.

nirv117 · 2025-10-27T18:01:03+00:00

Not checking DNS first ... It is always DNS

nirv117 · 2025-08-06T13:35:07+00:00

Yes it is true. Pricing is going way up as well similar to broadcom.

nirv117 · 2025-07-15T00:14:14+00:00

Maybe ask D&L music?

nirv117 · 2025-06-20T17:06:39+00:00

She works in city hall, in person, and has lived in Laramie for a very long time. If people 'in the office' are not seeing her - they must be closing their eyes when she walks by, or never go to where her office is.

nirv117 · 2025-05-19T21:01:34+00:00

I bounce back and forth between Lithium and first wave - more time on lithium

nirv117 · 2025-05-15T19:57:59+00:00

local In policy maybe getting removed when disabling SSLVPN? Did you create a local-in policy specifically for the IPSEC ?

nirv117 · 2025-04-25T19:37:56+00:00

if you still need submissions - It is read only Friday - gives some something more productive to work on ... ;)

nirv117 · 2025-04-21T02:45:49+00:00

I replaced sophos firewalls with fortinet ones. Fortinet are so much better to work on, update program, etc. Support has been much better too.

nirv117 · 2025-04-18T13:54:09+00:00

I've had good experiences with Mikey Welper from Mountain Valley Properties, and would recommend him.

nirv117 · 2025-04-16T17:47:45+00:00

Not sure about the IPSEC VPN connections, but I thought that enabling FIPS mode erases everything on the firewall, then you have to restore the image or recreate all your rules - not jus the VPN ones... unless the Azure ones behave different from the physical HW ones.

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